🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE THREAD:

As a research collective, we've had the great honor, and duty, of contributing to community defense at a time when fascism and bigotry has been rising at an alarming rate.

1/16 We hope that our work has increased safety and livability for the most targeted identities in the region. We also hope that our work has given pause to those who would target those identities.

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As the bird site continues to combust, it is important to remember that anti fash activism has never really had anything to do with twitter. This site is only a platform for spreading information and informing communities. We were fighting hate long before twitter… For decades, good people have joined together to fight fascism and to keep hate out of their communities. The struggle against fascism existed long before twitter, and anti fash communities have long operated their own sites and platforms…

This thread will introduce Boise ID nazi (and soon to be Dallas TX area nazi) Nick Stamolis
Nick Stamolis is a leader in the nazi cult Church of Aryanity as well as a leader in the Pride & Combat AC
Please check our article for more in depth information redoubtafa.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/1… Nick Stamolis first came on our radar when he decided to FAFO by starting a fight he lost at a concert in Boise this spring (local folks booted him from the show, made note of his nazi tattoos, and passed us his info). After being sent home crying, Nick was tailed and identified

Growing up in the so called American redoubt you get used to ever few years some big city reporter comes to the area and writes up some story they think is breaking news, usually resulting from them visiting a national park or skiing, or relating to the far right: freeman, AN etc These articles tend to both talk down to folks who live here, as well as embarrass the author: their ignorance of the topic shines through the other BS. We usually don’t respond, but @SethAbramson decided to share his thoughts with 900k of his closest friends. So here we go

This is a thread about our latest article in which we examined several early, unofficial, Black Lives Matter events in Boise at the start of the George Floyd Uprising.

We have found evidence of infiltration and organization with a neo-Nazi organizer, Alicia Peterson.
🧵 This is not meant to be a condemnation of Black Lives Matter or BLM Boise. The folks discussed in this article did their damage and departed. No one discussed in this article is currently connected to BLM or BLM Boise in any meaningful way.